| More prepared | 13 |
| More set | 8 |
| More disposed | 13 |
| Better set | 10 |
| Better briefed | 14 |
| Preps | 5 |
| Superlatively set | 17 |
| One way to be available | 23 |
| At a moment's notice | 24 |
| On a moment's notice | 24 |
| How available groupies are | 26 |
| Companion of writin' and 'rithmetic | 43 |
| State of preparation | 20 |
| Set state | 9 |
| Promptitude | 11 |
| Concern of reading teachers | 27 |
| Interpretation | 14 |
| Grade school focus | 18 |
| Something taken from a meter | 28 |
| Poetry performance | 18 |
| Poet's presentation | 23 |
| Poet's performance | 22 |
| Oscar Wilde's gaol | 22 |
| Major annual U.K. festival | 26 |
| Gauge datum | 11 |
| Bacon's Rx for becoming "a full man"? | 51 |
| B&O competitor | 18 |
| "___ maketh a full man": Bacon | 40 |
| Elementary school test package | 30 |
| Note to a spy, perhaps | 22 |
| 2008 Coen Brothers title, read literally | 40 |
| Lectern's kin | 17 |
| Certain specs | 13 |
| Start of a Steele quotation | 27 |
| Girls who love books? | 21 |
| Catalog of course books | 23 |
| Summer assignments | 18 |
| Preparatory activity for Santa? | 31 |
| Where the librarians' convention was held? | 46 |
| Minor league team with a locomotive in one of its logos | 55 |
| Oriental neighbor | 17 |
| Bookworm's transportation? | 30 |
| Train company in a game | 23 |
| Place between Baltic and Oriental | 33 |
| Pennsylvania line | 17 |
| Oriental Avenue neighbor, in Monopoly | 37 |
| Noted 19th- and 20th-century coal hauler | 40 |
| Monopoly industry? | 18 |
| It served the Mid-Atlantic until 1976 | 37 |
| It costs $200 in play money | 27 |
| Interpreting tracks? | 20 |
| Wedding man lookin' at the newspaper? | 41 |
| Pennsylvania expanse | 20 |
| Palmists' fortes | 20 |
| Palmists' forte | 19 |
| Book group events | 17 |
| Astrologers' work | 21 |
| Being intuitive, in a way | 25 |
| End of the Rogers line | 22 |
| Make more tweaks to | 19 |
| Change one's mode of life | 29 |
| Adapt anew | 10 |
| Prepare to practice at the bar | 30 |
| Informational file name | 23 |
| Text file with program instructions | 35 |
| Software instruction file, often | 32 |
| Software instruction file heading | 33 |
| Software instruction file | 25 |
| Software installation info file | 31 |
| Often-unopened file | 19 |
| File with installation instructions, maybe | 42 |
| File frequently found with freeware | 35 |
| Computer program setup filename, often | 38 |
| Computer instructions heading | 29 |
| Common text file name | 21 |
| Literacy campaign? | 18 |
| Signs back in | 13 |
| Lets in again | 13 |
| Hospitalizes again | 18 |
| Grants access again | 19 |
| Study for a recital | 19 |
| Be skilled with a staff, perhaps | 32 |
| Learn about via print | 21 |
| Recite, as from a list | 22 |
| Take a person's hand, perhaps | 33 |
| Look ahead, in a way | 20 |
| Flip through a magazine? | 24 |
| Do some palmistry | 17 |
| Took back as one's own | 26 |
| Accepted by vote again | 22 |
| Espouses again | 14 |
| "Scarce could ___ hold a quill": Blunden | 50 |
| Computing results, perhaps | 26 |
| Some computer displays | 22 |
| Search for typos, perhaps | 25 |
| Do some fortunetelling | 22 |
| Check out the head line and life line | 37 |
| Gives everyone the story? | 25 |
| Scan the Torah? | 15 |
| Auditions | 9 |